From the city to the beach

Our time in the city center of Sydney was only 2 days, but kind of a long 2 days.  All Lori and I wanted was to get back to the beach (have I mentioned that we have successfully mastered the art of being beach bums) and luckily Lori had booked us 3 nights on Coogee Beach.  At first it was a little annoying to get there.  It meant that we needed to catch a bus from central station to Coogee and I'm not that great with buses, especially ones on the other side of the road.  We first went up the road where our receptionist had told us to go, only to find out it was wrong because of all the buses passing us that were the wrong number.  We finally lugged our heavy back backs to the right area and proceeded to wait.  Trying to ride a crowed bus with a huge backpack on your back is kind of hard, but we eventually made it.  Back to something a little less stressful than the city.  The beach was amazing!!!  The eastern beaches of Sydney are all connected; we walked from Coogee all the way to Bondi Beach.  It was about 6 kilometers one way and when we got there I was very glad that we were at Coogee.  Bondi was definitely the place where people went to see and be seen.  We didn't fit in to say the least; we weren't tan enough for that place.  Plus it wasn't anywhere near as large as it looks on tv.  Here is a map of what we covered.

Our hostel was by far the coziest.  It was a renovated house and everyone there was so lovely.  We met 2 girls from England and 1 from Wales and we really enjoyed spending time with them.  It was exactly how we expected our trip to be.